Want more exposure for your students’ research and creative work? Hodges Library hosts an display area equipped with metal racks suitable for research posters and two-dimensional graphic works. Faculty can submit requests at lib.utk.edu/artinlibrary/display-proposals/.

People’s Choice Award, $50 — to Stacy Sivinski for “Literary Lion,”
a 3-dimensional collage made of book pages mounted on cardboard

Third Prize, $75 — to Chet Guthrie for “Nook of the Snail,” a close-up photograph of a snail sheltering among the spring wildflowers

Second Prize, $150 — to Olivia Lichterman for “Life in a Thousand Words,” a pen-drawn portrait created entirely of words

First Prize, $300 — to Stacy Sivinski for “Literary Lion.”

• This year we inaugurated a new prize, awarded by the Knoxville Mercury. The winner gets their work featured in the Knoxville Mercury.
The Knoxville Mercury award goes to Megan White for “Curvy,” a composition of oil and string on canvas”

Help pick the People’s Choice Award for the Student Art in The Library.
Here’s the link to our People’s Choice survey: https://tiny.utk.edu/votelibart
People may also vote at our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/utklibraries by liking their favorites.
The winner will be announced at the reception Thursday Sep 24 at 4:00 PM in Miles Reading room 1st Floor Hodges

Selected two-dimensional works (drawings, graphic design, prints, photography, painting) will be on display in the exhibit area in the PAUL M. & MARION T. MILES READING ROOM 135 Hodges during the spring semester. The contest is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, in any discipline.

Her description reads: This diptych explores the complex triangular relationships among three siblings, creating a tale of simultaneous pathos, humor, and disgust. Narrative clues are divulged in the pose and gesture of grotesque figures, while game pieces and inscription offer supplementary detail. The mirroring of compositional elements reinforces the themes of biological repetition, variation, point of view, and the tradition of the printed multiple.

2nd Place

A Daisy Worth 177,000 Words

Samantha Arcamuzi

Ink Pen o paper

Samantha is an Undergraduate in Neuroscience and Psychology

Her description reads:

The image is made entirely from the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is done with ink pen only. The blue and green in the background are made up of the words from The Great Gatsby

3rd Place

Tranquility garden

Farzaneh Khorsandi Kouhanestani (فرزانه خورسندی)

Guash on paper board

Farzaneh is a graduate student in Biosystems engineering

People’s Choice

Girl #2: Molly

Mason Freeman

Charcoal on paper

Mason is an Undergraduate in Neuroscience

And her description reads:

As I continue to work with charcoal and portraiture, I try to create more intense, high-contrast portraits. Portraits focus more on the person being depicted and adds an element of vulnerability when it’s monochramatic

Some comments from Facebook include: “I thought it was a photograph. I really had to look closely.” “The sharpness of the lines is incredible!”

Selected two-dimensional works (drawings, graphic design, prints, photography, painting) will be on display in the exhibit area in the PAUL M. & MARION T. MILES READING ROOM 135 Hodges during the spring semester. The contest is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, in any discipline.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

March 8 submission deadline midnight (Limit three entries per artist)

March 9-15 committee will review art online and make selections (selected artists are notified by email)

March 23 deadline to bring in selected art to Hodges Library second floor service desk

The UT Libraries is seeking student artworks for the Student Art in the Library juried exhibition. The contest awards a First Prize of $300, Second Prize of $150, and Third Prize of $75. Selected two-dimensional works (drawings, graphic design, prints, photography, ceramics, painting) will be on display in the exhibit area during the fall semester. The contest is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, in any discipline. Submission deadline is midnight, September 21